Archaeology of the High Plains

Description

Author: Gunnerson, James H.  (1922-2009)

Publisher: Bureau of Land Management

Pub Date: 1987

Binding: Paperback

Condition: 2 copies.  Copy 1: Fair.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears.  Lower rear cover corner has an approx. 1/2″ bend.  Smudging, spotting to front and rear covers.  Some edge and corner wear.  Copy 2 (LOA23): Fair.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, folds.  Upper corner of the first four pages of text have an approx. 2″ bend (dropped?  How the front cover is not bent remains a mystery).  Edge and corner wear.

Notes: Cultural Resource Series Number 19.  “…the archaeology of the Central High Plains.  The area is bounded on the north by 41 latitude, on the east by the 99th meridian, on the south by 35 latitude in New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma, and by 37 latitude in Colorado, on the west by the Continental Divide in Colorado and by the eastern foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in New Mexico.”  (From the Prologue)  In layman’s terms, on the south at Las Vegas, NM, over to Elk City, OK, up through central Kansas into southern Nebraska, along the northern Colorado border over to the Rockies, then south into New Mexico.  Human use of the land from Paleoindian through Historic.  About half the volume is References, which makes a marvelous state and topic bibliography.